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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> And being honest, I hope that something else replaces GRUB2; I like |
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> the notion of a /firstboot minimal Linux as boot loader, or something |
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> similar. If the boot loader has to do OS-related work (graphics/input |
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> drivers and stuff like that), I think using Linux directly is better |
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> than re-implementing something twice (and probably in the wrong |
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> manner) as GRUB2 is doing. |
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Interestingly, Ubuntu, who has been a big supporter of GRUB2, is |
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moving away from it because of license incompatibility with UEFI |
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secure boot. They are going to use efilinux instead and are planning |
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to extended it to have a simple boot menu interface. |
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